Hexi, Wuwei County.

The head of the Hexi Xing Battalion, the commander of the left capital of Hexi Dao, the commander of Wuwei Taishou, and Li Liang, the Duke of Liangguo, were a little surprised when they saw Luo Siye's herald and took the order.

A Hexi general sighed, "Li Yuan is really crazy, at this time, he didn't think about how to negotiate and delay, but instead killed Luo Siye's son, didn't this force Luo Siye to attack the city?" ”

Another general said, "Maybe Li Yuan just wants to provoke Luo Siye, and then make him lose his mind and attack Xiao Guan." After all, Xiao Pass is one of the four fortresses in the Guanzhong, and it is extremely dangerous, if Heiye attacks Xiao Pass, I am afraid that there will be heavy casualties, and Luo Siye's soldiers and horses are mainly cavalry. ”

Li Liang shook the order in his hand.

"I just received the order of the Qin Emperor and the King of Jin, sent troops to sweep away Longyou, and just came back, this is another order, summoning my Hexi Army to Xiaoguan, and directly stating that all troops should be mobilized to go over. You say, "Do you obey orders?" ”

A general said, "Luo Siye was obviously provoked by Li Yuan, and now he is angry to gather troops and horses to attack Xiao Pass, which is very unwise, and the art of war does not raise troops with anger." Besides, it is obvious that he has not received the emperor's will to send troops now, and the emperor only said that Chen Bingxiao passed the pass and scattered the passes, put pressure on the Tang army, restrained its soldiers and horses, forced it not to go out of the pass, and did not make trouble for the Central Plains battlefield, we have done it now, and we can completely ignore Luo Siye. ”

"I'm just afraid that it won't work, Luo Siye is the emperor's brother after all, not to mention, he is still the commander of the Guanlong Xingying Camp granted by the emperor, and he has the command of the entire Guanzhong Longyou Heshuo land, if he doesn't obey the order, I'm afraid it will be very troublesome."

"That's it, it's better to be ordered to send troops for a trip. Maybe when Luo Siye calms down and behaves at that time, we can come back again. ”

"But that's too much of a toss-up."

"There's no way around it."

Li Liang listened to the discussions of his subordinate generals, and finally had to listen to everyone's opinions and decided to send troops.

"Pass my general order, mobilize the soldiers and horses of the counties in Hexi, and also pass on the Hu people in Hexi, so that they can send some men and horses to strengthen their prestige."

The heralds of the Marshal's Mansion of Wuwei County came out in all directions, passing the military orders all the way.

A few days later, Luo Siye received a reply from Li Liang.

He had already mobilized 100,000 troops from Hexi, including 24,000 in the newly reorganized army, about 60,000 Tutuan township soldiers, and about 10,000 Qiang, Tuyuhun, Turkic, and Sogdian tribal soldiers.

"Very good, it seems that Li Liang has given me Luo Siye face, you go to tell Liang Guogong on my behalf, I Luo Siye has recorded this favor, and I hope he will arrive with the army as soon as possible."

Xiao Guanxia.

Siye was very satisfied with Li Liang's cooperation.

"Where's Longyou?"

"Marshal, the counties of Longyou have just been captured, and it is estimated that there will not be many soldiers and horses, and now we are waiting for the reply of the counties."

Longyou was originally occupied by the Tang army after defeating Xue Ju's Western Qin, and after the heir industry seized the Hetao and went south, Li Liang, who was jointly attached, swept through Longyou and defeated the Tang army stationed there.

Then Heiye dispatched many generals under his command to be stationed in the counties of Longyou, and also gave official positions to those officials and local heroes who were attached to Longyou.

A few days later.

The reply from the counties of Longyou has arrived.

"Tianshui County Taishou Hou Junji sent someone to reply, and he has led an army of 30,000 to come day and night."

"Longxi County Taishou Yin Kaishan sent someone to reply, and he is leading an army of 30,000 to come."

In addition, the Taishou of Lintao, Baohan, Doihe, Xihai, and Xiping counties also replied or led more than 10,000 troops, or led 20,000 troops on the way to come.

Luo Siye's joining the army frightened the soldiers of these Taishou generals in Longyou Prefecture.

"Marshal, only the soldiers reported by the counties of Longyou are already 120,000."

Siye was also surprised.

"How can there be so many?" After he and Li Rail's coalition army captured Longyou, Li Rail led the Hexi Army to withdraw to Hexi, and the Longyou land was garrisoned by 10,000 troops led by the generals under the command of Heiye.

But now, these 10,000 soldiers have turned into 120,000?

Even if you add the original soldiers of Longyou, the local heroes, the Qiang Di and other soldiers, there shouldn't be so many.

But soon, even more surprising news arrived.

Dozens of Qiang and Di tribes in Longyou also responded to the order to send troops, and they were either two or three thousand, or seven or eight hundred, and they actually made up more than 50,000 people.

"The 120,000 soldiers of the original counties of Longyou did not include the tribal soldiers?"

"No?"

When Yin Kaishan, the nearest Longxi County, arrived with a striker, Siye asked him, "Did you really bring 30,000 soldiers?" Where did so many soldiers come from? ”

"Recruit and surrender."

After Yin Kaishan pacified Longyou, he was awarded the title of Longxi Taishou by Heiye, and when he stayed behind, Siye gave him 3,000 soldiers, which has now become 30,000.

In his words, in fact, there is nothing unusual, after he stayed in Longxi, the first thing he did was to reorganize the original Longxi Tang Army to surrender troops, and then led the troops to encircle and recruit various bandits and bandits in the county, and used them together, the effect was good, and many bandits and soldiers accepted Zhao'an.

"I've only left some of them, otherwise seventy or eighty thousand soldiers would have come out."

"You have so many soldiers, how do you provide for them?" Si Ye asked.

"Tuntian." Yin Kaishan replied with a smile, originally after he began to recruit those people, he also planned to dismiss them, but later he felt that these people were unruly, and some people were also used to being thieves.

So later simply left the thorns in these people, he imitated the previous Luo Chengping, Shandong and other places after the method, selected the most elite as the government soldiers, and then the others as the tuntian soldiers, so that the government soldiers of Longyou County only made up a total of 8,000 people, but the tun soldiers were made up of 22,000.

"So, your 30,000 soldiers, haven't you counted the Tutuan Xiangyong?"

"Of course I didn't forget it, I also gathered a lot of Tutuan Xiangyong, and there are also many powerful clans who also enthusiastically sent their children to accompany the expedition, they are volunteers." Yin Kaishan told Siye that in addition to the 30,000 soldiers from Longyou County, there were about 20,000 Tutuan, and about 5,000 volunteers from his sons.

Siye sighed, this Yin Kaishan almost pulled out all the men in Longyou County.

"No, it's probably just three of them." Yin Kaishan said with a smile.

One soldier after another is constantly gathering.

Late September.

On the valley plain under Xiaoguan, more than 400,000 horses have gathered, of which 80,000 are from the original 30,000 people in Hetao and Longyou counties, another 100,000 are from Tuntian, and 24,000 are from Hexi.

In addition, there are more than 100,000 Tutuan township soldiers in the three counties, and there are no less than 100,000 other soldiers, and many tribes are directly driving cattle and sheep, and the entire tribe of men, women, and children come to say that they will be ordered by the Qin Emperor to fight to Chang'an City, so as to rob money, grain, and women.

Countless people and horses converged into a torrent, like a migrating army.

On Xiao Guan City, Li Daozong looked at the huge crowd of people who were more than one day a day, and he was worried.

"Your Majesty made a mistake, a big mistake, and he angered a person who should not be angered when he shouldn't."

"Luo Siye, this is pulling all the people outside the gate over, right?" The guards were all terrified.

Close.

Luo Siye is gathering with Li Rail, Yin Kaishan, Duan Zhixuan and other generals.

"I, Luo Siye, thank you in advance for your help, thank you for giving me this face, so that I Luo Siye has the opportunity to command these more than 400,000 horses, I thank you in advance for my wife and my son."

"I was ordered to fight against the rebellion and put down the chaos, which is as it should be." Li Liang said with a smile, but he was secretly frightened in his heart, and he couldn't imagine that Luo Siye could actually make such a big battle.

"Okay, I won't put much in my mouth if I thank you, let's gather more than 400,000 people here, break the Xiao Pass, enter Chang'an City, and capture Li Yuan's old man!"

"Break Xiao Pass, attack Chang'an, and capture Li Yuan alive!"